Legibility of English handwriting on passenger list: Regarding passengers listed as numbers 27, 28, 29 (a mother F. Wien and 2 children: Jille and Neche): Can you read the names of the people listed as destination (husband, father, and in-law) and the address? What is the husband/father's name? Then it says: "c/o" -- can you read what it says after that? Is it "mother-in-law"? Thank you. I have a pdf and a zoomed/enlarged image of that section in a pdf file and also in a jpg file, if you would like to see those.

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11/23/2013 1:13 PM

Hello Barrie,

The only information that I could decipher for you was the destination of Elizabeth Port, NY.

#27 - adress of destination is 212 First Ave, Elizabeth Port, NY. Name not legible.

#29 - same information as above.

At least this is a start. If I can decipher anything else, I will let you know....Jo

11/23/2013 1:20 PM

Barrie,

#27 - brother-in-law

#28 - husband

#29 - brother (probably). If not, then brother-in-law. This one is confusing, as the passenger is just a young child, so it must be the brother.

Jo

11/25/2013 4:57 AM

The Wiens are being met by their husband/father, listed as "S.L. Wien, c/o W. Suklow, Clinton Str 30, New York."

Addresses are often written in this format – European-fashion, with the house number after the street name – on the manifests. The address could possibly be 50 instead of 30. Clinton St. Is on the Lower East Side. If you look up both addresses in the 1900 Census (using stevemorse.org), you should find W. Suklow and possibly also S.L. Wien, perhaps with different spellings, and probably with full first names. You're lucky that the arrival date is so close to when the census was taken.

I'm pretty sure that "W Suklow" is the correct reading. This could be a variation of Sokolov or Sokolow. Note that the "c/o" person was often not a relative, but instead the person from whom the immigrant may have been renting a room, a friend from the old country, etc.

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